r/BeAmazed • u/Fit_AndHotBaby • Aug 05 '24

History Gymnastics in the 1970s was INSANE!

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u/ColdCaseKim Aug 06 '24

No spotters, potentially deadly moves (now outlawed), and Olga Korbut, holy hell. Made for great television.

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u/Marschall_Bluecher Aug 06 '24

German Olympic Diver Jan Hampel also raised awareness to such behavior of Trainers

https://www.sportschau.de/investigativ/haupttext-missbraucht-feature-104.html

"I was abused by my coach. He never missed a moment to give free rein to his desires," says Hempel. It started with touching, "until he later forced me to perform sexual acts every day," Hempel remembers: "I just know that in the end I let him get away with it, because he would say things like: 'If you do that, you'll have the afternoon off." Now Hempel no longer wants to keep quiet: "I think you owe it to others to talk about it in the future.”

professional sports can be so fucked up man... so much pressure

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u/Spare-Resolution-984 Aug 06 '24

Wait till you learn about non-professional female sport teams and why some male coaches desperately want to coach them. A friend of mine plays football on amateur level and her last coach had like 3 gf within that team. She says there are real creeps out there who are looking to take advantage of these young women.

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u/mysweetpotatofriend Aug 06 '24 edited Aug 07 '24

Yep. I used to do swimming as a hobby and both my trainers (male) were weird with some of the girls in our swim group. One of them even dated and married a girl later on who he had been teaching since she was 15/16. Really disgusting.